Chapter 72 Preparing to Withdraw

  Hei Zi hadn't gone to pick up ore for over a month, and it was rare for him to go to the open-pit mine. A few times he went up to his own mine entrance and sold some ore. The iron powder produced by the ore dressing plant was transported to the steel company in the county town every day. There was someone in charge of collecting tickets at the pump, and as long as they didn't settle accounts, Hei Zi wouldn't have to worry about it. He had cultivated a few people in the ore dressing plant as his own informants, who were responsible for monitoring everything in the ore dressing plant. He paid them double wages.

  Hei Zi is very cautious in doing things. He doesn't want to be caught before his career takes off, nor does he want to be deceived by others.

  Back to the mining point, everything went smoothly and quickly, everyone did their job well, only Wang Peng didn't have anything to do, he was not familiar with the environment here, Hei Zi asked him to go around every day, take a look, and then assign tasks after a while.

  Hei Zi spent the entire summer in the open-pit mine, during which he went to the county's steel company twice to settle accounts and brought back over 30 million. Adding this to the money he made from picking up minerals in the past half year, the amount of money in his hands had already exceeded 70 million.

  It's been over a year since he started picking up minerals, although small things kept happening, nothing big happened, and Hei Zi began to feel uneasy. Since the beginning of autumn, more and more people have come to the open-pit mine to steal and rob minerals, so Hei Zi decided to leave the open-pit mine and end his mineral picking career.

  Hei Zi gathered everyone together and held a meeting, telling them his intentions. Nobody understood why Hei Zi wanted to do this, as they were all aware that they currently had an income of 500,000 to 600,000 yuan per day, which was not much less than robbing a bank.

  Hei Zi didn't explain, he just told everyone to let the driver pull a few more cars these days, and stop next Monday, then use one day's time to clean up the site and leave here.

  Just as Hei Zi and his friends were about to leave, a thug from Xinglong County came with some men and found Hei Zi, telling him that he wanted to take his brothers to Macau for a few days of fun and asked Hei Zi to lend him money.

  The mixed child said borrowing money is taking it, he regards Heizi's place as his own bank.

  There were seven or eight people coming, all of them were burly men, with bulging and swollen waists as if they were hiding deadly weapons.

  These days, the site is being cleaned up, and a car is hired to transport away the remaining ore. Hei Zi doesn't want to cause trouble, he wants to leave quickly and cleanly. Hei Zi takes this rascal out of the house, pointing at the ore under the slope and says: "If you want money, take these away, consider it a gift from me."

  One ton of ore can sell for one hundred and sixty or seventy yuan, a few hundred tons is just around seven or eight hundred thousand. The mixed child looked at Hei Zi with disdain and said: "You're just trying to swindle food, these are worth at most seven or eight hundred thousand, my brothers and I play once and we must get at least one million."

  Xiao Fei and his ten men were directing the loading of vehicles, while Hei Zai had only Wang Pengcheng by his side.

  Wang Pengcheng is quite tall, but due to years of malnutrition, he grew too thin. Although his nutrition has improved since following Hei Zi, the time was short and he didn't gain much weight, only becoming more spirited and having more energy than before. These thugs simply didn't take a scrawny seventeen- or eighteen-year-old half-sized kid like him seriously, completely ignoring him.

  Hei Zi didn't like what he was hearing and thought of taking action. He looked at Zhu Xiao Fei and Er Cheng, who were too far away to be of any help. He thought to himself that if he was going to take action, he had to use the fastest speed to subdue this rascal.

  Hei Zi laughed loudly and said: "Brother, it's windy outside, come to my place and accidentally slip your tongue out, how embarrassing."

  Hei Zi said as he stepped forward, stretching out his arm to strangle Hunzi's head, while his right hand reached for the dagger at his waist.

  The ground was littered with stones, and Wang Peng saw Hei Zi take action, bending down to pick up a stone larger than a brick, swinging his hand to slap it on Hunzi's head. Blood splattered onto Hei Zi's face, and Hunzi's body went limp in Hei Zi's arms.

  The other thugs also reached for their weapons, and Hei Zi, still holding his dagger, shouted: "Who dares to move?"

  The rest of them were intimidated by these two ruthless men, their hands frozen in their sleeves, as if they had been cast a petrifying spell.

  Wishing Xiaofei and others heard the roar here, found out that something was wrong and ran over. At this time, a rascal roared: "He killed my brother, everyone comes up."

  The one who shouted was a small mixed breed, with a scar at the corner of his mouth, looking very fierce. He pulled out a 54 from his pocket and was about to fire.

  Hei Zi rushed towards the little guy, but before he got close, a rock flew over his head from behind and slammed into the little guy's face. The little guy was in so much pain that he dropped his gun and covered his face with both hands, blood seeping through his fingers.

  Hei Zi pressed the dagger against the throat of the thug closest to him with his backhand.

  A few thugs were stunned, they had been living a comfortable life by extorting mine owners and mining bosses for years. This year, they heard that an outsider named Cheng Heizi was not even dared to be provoked by Qian Yongping, so they thought of bringing guns to intimidate him. If they could intimidate Cheng Heizi, their prestige in Xinglong County would surpass Qian Yongping's, and no one would dare to provoke them again.

  They didn't expect to lose so badly. The boss and his younger brother, one missing in action, the other covered in blood, this time they were thoroughly defeated.

  "Lao Wu, what's wrong?" Zhu Xiao Fei was the first to run over, followed by everyone else gathering around.

  Hei Zi turned around and looked at Wang Peng Cheng, seeing Wang Peng Cheng's expressionless face staring at those thugs, with a hint of readiness to take action at any moment. He patted his shoulder and said: "Peng Cheng, in the future, don't take action when you're not allowed to, it's too dangerous."

  Wang Pengcheng nodded and said: "Hei Ge, I know, with me around no one can hurt you."

  Wang Pengcheng completely misunderstood Hei Zi's meaning. In fact, Hei Zi said that the opponent was too dangerous and he feared Wang Pengcheng would accidentally kill someone.

  Heizi and Wang Pengcheng said after finishing their words to Zhu Xiaofei and others: "Take away their weapons."

  Eight people with four Type 54s and four bayonets. These people's equipment is quite good, it seems they came prepared.

  Hei Zi looked at the unconscious mixed-breed dog on the ground and said: "What's your leader's name?"

  Xiao Fei saw no one answered, so he kicked a rascal's leg and said: "I'm asking you."

  The guy who was kicked almost fell down and hastily said: "My big brother's name is Liu Fulaicome, people all call him Lai Ge."

  I've heard of this guy Hei Zi, according to some thugs I know, Liu Fu Lai is a reckless young punk who dares to take action. He just got out of prison last year and the thugs in Xing Long County are afraid he'll surpass Qian Ping. The thugs say that sometimes Qian Yong Ping doesn't play by the rules, but Liu Fu Lai never plays by the rules.

  "Where's your car?" Hei Zi asked.

  A mixed boy pointed to a distant dirt road and said, "It's around the bend."

  "Don't want you all to die, drive the car over and send them to the hospital first."

  A rascal who can drive rushed towards the corner on his bicycle.

  "Heizi told Zhushao Fei: 'Xiaofei, bring a few people and some money to follow them, send them to the municipal hospital, take a look at the situation.'"

  Mixed kid rarely gets medical treatment after beating someone, usually they just run away. Now Hei Zi is on the rise in his career and as long as no one dies, he doesn't want to leave here. This matter isn't a big deal even if it's made public, they came looking for trouble with guns, what I did was self-defense.